I WAS at Blackburn last weekend, to watch Steve Kean’s side beat Queens Park Rangers in a vital Premier League game.

Yakubu scored, of course, as he has been doing so regulalry this season. He also hit the bar with one of the most audacious attempts you will see.

I then watched Tottenham take on Newcastle, and saw Louis Saha slot straight into Harry Redknapp’s “dream machine” with a couple of typically clinical finishes.

And, down in the Championship, Jermaine Beckford is also showing some excellent form of late.

Of course most Everton fans will have a wry smile at those three. Why, they will wonder, did we not see that kind of form from them in the later days of their Goodison Park careers?

The answer, I’d say, is impossible to find. But Evertonians need not be too regretful at seeing their former charges doing well at other clubs. It was, after all, never likely to happen at Goodison.

Yakubu, as is his way, scored goals when he first came to the club, but by the end of his time he was just not doing it.

Saha was similar. There is no debating his talent; he is rare. But he had clearly lost his way this season, and maybe a move was the change he needed.

Beckford was a little different; he did well last season, but the offer from Leicester was a good one for a player of his age and talent, and David Moyes had to make a considered decision. I don’t think he will be losing too much sleep over their form since leaving the club.